Leadership Training Provides Important Benefits

If you've ever worked in an organization that provides no leadership training you already know what a challenge that is. Leadership training prepares front line leaders for providing the kind of high performance leadership needed to solve problems and achieve their goals. Here are some quick articles I found that point out additional benefits to training.

Invest in Experiences
From FastCompany: Science explains why it provides more happiness to spend money on experiences rather than things.

In experiences we share with other people, collaborate, feel, and learn. The best training provides that as well.

Employee Training Is Worth The Investment
Many of the benefits of training include: improving retention, helping in recruiting, adding flexibility and efficiency, helps in job transfer. I would add that it provides the growth we each need to move forward toward achieving our goals.

How Employee Training Benefits Everyone
More benefits are identified here plus the eye-opening statement that training helps improve flexibility and efficiency up to 230%. Sound good? How is your organization doing at investing in training? What are you doing personally to add to your leadership training?

What additional benefits can you think of?

I've also seen the positive team building effects that leadership training supplies. Leaders who learn how to best build their own teams tend to transfer those skills to their cross-functional relationships as well, strengthening the whole organization. Leadership training can also remove much of the anxiety that new leaders feel over attempting skills they've not yet fully developed. Moving from a job where you were one of the best to a completely new set of skills can be unnerving! Why not prepare leaders with the proper training to help them turn into high performance leaders?

I'm in the business of leadership training and here's my pitch. If you are in the market for leadership training please give Front Range Leadership a look. If you're curious and want more information (and if you're ready to bring us in right away!) contact me here:

doug@frontrangeleadership.com

Front Range Leadership delivers fast, affordable leadership training. We can schedule one-day workshops at your location. We can even provide the leadership training that you need through webinars, teleclasses and teleconference coaching. Contact me today to start the conversation.

Supervising for Success - a great way to get supervisors off to a great start, or to adjust some rough areas.

Communicating for Results - a workshop dedicated to developing deeper conversations, more productive meetings, and more influential presentations.

Building Your Team - identifying the keys to your team's success and learning the tools that can help you collaborate on that success.

Solving Problems - Creating the collaborative space for success so that project teams, in-tact teams, and organizations can solve the problems that trouble them.

Achieving your goals - putting in place the processes, habits, and tools you need as a front line leader to achieve your goals.

My strongest recommendation is to bring in these one-day workshops to your organization. All we need is a conference room and 5 to 15 of your front line supervisors. We offer special deals for multiple sessions and our focus is in the Front Range area where less travel means better rates for your company.

Who benefits the most? Supervisors in retail, insurance and service businesses.

Contact us today and prepare your leaders for success,

-- Douglas Brent Smith
doug@frontrangeleadership.com

Front Range Leadership, LLC | Longmont, CO

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